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Against Monopoly
One of the most interesting things about patents is that many entrepreneurs I have talked to are unenthusiastic about them. You can make money by creating a product, building a business and developing customers. Or you can spend your time in court trying to grab money from someone else. Successful entrepreneurs tend to do the former. Richard Corsale is an entrepreneur, and writes to us his views about patents. His career titles include: software developer, project manager, CIO, CTO and CEO and Sandwich Artist. He is currently launching an Open Source software company with a value added business model. The concept centers around IP that is placed in the public domain (tofui.com). He is considering producing a mini-documentary about the launch of tofui and other companies that are embracing alternative business models.
Richard says: I have been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. I generally believe that whats good for the ecoystem of an industry is good for everyone in that industry. I view a robust public domain as crucial for intellectual advancement and cultural identity. Politically I suppose I lean left on social issues and center/right on fiscal policy.
He submits the following remarks about software patents:
Five Reasons the US Supreme Court should explicitly deny patent protection to software.
1. Software is simply a solution to a problem. Patenting the solution is pointless since it is protected under copyright. So what we end up with are patents that cover a conceived problem. Of course the problem does not exist until it is conceived, and thus it is abstract. Abstract ideas are not patentable subject matter and neither are algorithmic solutions. Software patents have nothing to do with software, rather with the purely imaginary problems that they solve. What we are left with is …
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